Cinq mélodies de Venise

Cinq mélodies ›de Venise‹ (FR) Five Songs ›of Venice.‹ Fauré's settings (1891, Op. 58, #1 – 5) for voice and piano of five poems from Fêtes galantes (1869) and Romances sans paroles (1874) by Verlaine. The titles of the individual songs are: »Mandoline,« »En Sourdine,« »Green,« »A Clymène,« and »C'est l'extase.« Commissioned by and dedicated to Mme. la Princesse Edmond de Polignac, who took Fauré and some other artists on a paid vacation to Venice in 1891. Only »Mandoline« was actually…